A Baltimore-area man convicted in April of murdering his wife in 1991 and then burying her in concrete under a shed in their backyard, was sentenced to 30 years in prison today. The sentencing judge called Robert Jarrett Jr. a "monster hiding behind softness of human skin."

Burglars rarely return to the scene of the crime — much less in order to return the things they stole.

What's worse: Enjoying a movie in the theater with friends, only to find yourself aggressively shushed by a busybody? Or being unable to concentrate or follow a film because of incessant talking and texting?

There is good news and bad news here in post-racial America, the land in which nobody sees color, until it's time to shoot. The good news is that young people— who are The Future— are really embracing integration. The bad news? As usual, old white people.

Israel Hernandez had only managed to scribble a tiny letter "R" — the initial of his nickname, "Reefa" — on the wall of an abandoned graffiti-and-poster-littered McDonald's last Tuesday morning, when he was spotted by the cops and took off.

Tungsten is a mineral used in manufacturing everything from auto parts to pens to cell phones and computers. Some of the tungsten purchased by some of the world's most well-known companies is illegally mined and used to enrich FARC, a Colombian rebel army.

Patch, the AOL-owned collection of hyperlocal news sites, will reportedly be laying off as many as 500 people this week.

...Or, at least, that's what Next Movie is claiming their intern Christopher Rosa is doing in the video below. I haven't checked the original script against his recitation. But even if he isn't entirely accurate, this is a mesmerizing twenty-nine minutes and seven seconds of a person in a room talking to himself while barely taking the time to breathe. It has the feel of a show on TLC.

A woman hoping to represent the ultranationalist One Nation party in next month's Australian federal election could be disqualified if convicted of charges stemming from an anti-Muslim vandalism campaign she participated in recently.

If you've watched any of CNN or Fox News' coverage of the George Zimmerman trial, you've probably encountered Frank Taaffe, Zimmerman's friend and his most visible defender. But you probably haven't seen his virulently racist Twitter account or heard his appearance on a white supremacist's podcast.

Sean Sasser, who dated The Real World: San Francisco's Pedro Zamora and married him on the show, has died of mesothelioma at age 44. Sasser shared his life and HIV status (he was positive) with the world all the way back in 1994. He was truly courageous.

A fancy shmancy restaurant located inside a Los Angeles County museum is taking pretension as art to its illogical conclusion by introducing what it calls "LA's most extensive Water Menu."

Alert, medical professionals: television doctor and 2003 People magazine "Sexiest Man Alive" runner-up Sanjay Gupta now supports medical marijuana. Please update your science textbooks.

Was Daft Punk's Colbert Report cancellation part of a bigger plan to promote this year's MTV Video Music Awards? Billboard says maybe, the New York Times doesn't seem to agree. The plot thickens, and if there's one thing a thickening plot is good for, it's promoting the VMAs.

A few weeks ago, Beyoncé's hair got hilariously stuck in a fan while she was attempting to move thousands to tears via an emotional performance of "Halo." Now, perhaps out of a mistaken belief that fans run on Beyoncé hair instead of electricity, Beyoncé has chopped off all her long hair, in an ambitious tactical maneuver designed to starve the world's fans.

Having grown tired of waiting on his baby girl Sophia to give him a break and just eat her vegetables already, one tricky Troll Dad goes to Plan B: The Ol' Kit Kat Switcheroo.

Escape artist Anthony Martin went skydiving while locked and chained inside a coffin. He freed himself while falling and parachuted to safety. I'm sorry, but that is awesome.

Last night, three lottery-ticket-purchasers won the lottery, sharing a total jackpot of $448 million. Two of the winners are from New Jersey, one is from Minnesota.